A few ways to improve the engagement of your new employees at their New Hire Orientation and help them love their decision to work for your company.

1. At Their New Hire Orientation Presentation
4 Helpful Ways

2. “Six months later, those who went through
the employee-centered orientation were up
to 32% less likely to have quit than those
who sat through a typical company-focused
onboarding process.”
Silveman, R.E. (2013, May 28). Companies Try to Make the First
Day for New Hires More Fun. The Wall Street Journal, Retrieved from
http://www.wsj.com

3. Make it
fun!
From the start.

4. Tell them
how to get
there.
Make it fun!

5. Play some lively
music as they
arrive.
Make it fun!

6. Use a Flip Chart
Sheet on the wall
for Sign In.
Make it fun!

7. Feed them
something.
Make it fun!

8. Because:
And helping them have some funwill help them want to be here.
They would rather be somewhere else.

9. Be considerate of
every
single
person.

10. Go around the
room. Ask each
person about them.
Pay attention, interact, move quickly and be
extremely sensitive to those who just want
to move on.

11. Consider: Some of your team
members will find
traveling to an offsite
orientation to be a
costly effort as related
to their personal
situation.A bit of quiet awareness,
consideration and compassion
goes a very long way.

12. Be “chill”.
They don’t think you will be.
And to be so will be valuable beyond imagination.

13. Manage your
presentation with
precision.

14. Start on time.
Waiting on the stragglers
punishes those who made
it on time.

15. Breaks on time at
50 Minutes.
(Fire up the music again.)

16. Let them know where they
can find lunch. So they can
spend some
time away
from “work”
(you).

17. Finish
On
Time.

18. Run a superb
presentation.

19. Do notunderestimate the preparation and knowledge needed
for
Superb.

20. so present all computer
application demonstrations
live.
Static Screen
Shots are Boring,

21. Design the presentation
to divide the signing of
forms into discrete
chunks.

22. fun!
That video where the CEO talks
about himself?
Chunk that thing up too.
Make the Company Story

23. The “Benefits” Chunk
A video about industry leading benefits…
Sign any paper forms for benefits…
Demonstrate online tools live…
Distribute “cheat sheet” style paper handout…
Build company value, interact, use humor, assist…
For
Example:

24. Make sure to connect
all the chunks with an
interesting narrative.
And close the circle to finish.

25. Thanks for considering these few ideas.
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presentation.
Let’s give the new
team members a great start!
Tom Newell
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